wfn.org | Tentmakers pitching annual conference

[PCUSA.NEWS@ecunet.org]

Note #6207 from PCUSA NEWS to PRESBYNEWS:

6-October-2000
00346

Tentmakers pitching annual conference 

Presbyterians, Episcopalians meeting jointly

by Evan Silverstein

LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- "Tentmaking 2000: The Outer Fringe or the Cutting Edge?"
will be the theme of next month's annual conference of the Association of
Presbyterian Tentmakers (APT).

	The three-day conference, which begins on Nov. 3 at the center for
Development in Ministry at the University of St. Mary of the Lake in
Mundelein, Ill., outside Chicago, is co-sponsored by the National
Association for the Self-Supporting Active Ministry (NASSAM) of the
Episcopal Church.

	Tentmakers are ministers who serve in church-related positions but derive
all or most of their income from outside employment.

	"Part of what we want to look at is what would seminary education look
like, with tentmakers specifically in mind?" said the Rev. John Hasenjaeger,
tentmaker, university teacher and APT moderator. "That challenges the
traditional model of the seminary, which involves withdrawing from the world
for three or four years into the educational experience of theological
education."

	The conference also will explore "issues of ordination and vocation and the
future of the church into the twenty-first century," Hasenjaeger said.

	Guest speakers include the Rev. William D. Persell, Episcopal Bishop of the
Diocese of Chicago, a former dean of Trinity Cathedral in Cleveland; the
Rev. Robert C. Reynolds, executive presbyter of the Presbytery of Chicago;
the Rev. James B. Lemler, dean and president of the Episcopal Church's
Seabury-Western Theological Seminary in Evanston, Ill.; and the Rev. John P.
Jewell, director of Seminary Technological Services at the University of
Dubuque Theological Seminary, who is looking into creative uses of "distance
learning" in the training of commissioned lay pastors for the Presbyterian
Church (USA).

	For more information about the conference, contact Hasenjaeger, 724 Van
Buren Street, Oregon City, Ore., 97045; email: john.hasenjaeger@ecunet.org;
phone: (503)-722-5367.

_______________________________________________
pcusaNews mailing list
pcusaNews@pcusa.org

To unsubscribe, go to this web address:
http://pcusa01.pcusa.org/mailman/listinfo/pcusanews